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Oscar De La Hoya, a winner of 10 title belts over six different weight divisions, says he’s wearing “a smile on my face that isn’t coming off any time soon” after having been voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for 2014.

Unbeaten Philadelphia-based heavyweight prospect Bryant Jennings, who meets hammer-fisted Andrey Fedosov on June 14, had to rise from a second-round knockdown during his fifth-round stoppage win over Bowie Tupou in December.

Saul Alvarez on Austin Trout, who defeated Alvarez’s older brother, Rigoburto, in 2011: “Beating him will make a statement, and in so doing, I plan to avenge my brother’s loss to him and bring victory home to Mexico.”

Oscar De La Hoya on his absence from THE RING’s Top 10 list of fighters who have achieved Olympic and professional success: “I really don’t mind, because I don’t need my head to be blown up any more than it already is.”

In advance of the Sergio Martinez-Matthew Macklin RING middleweight title bout on Saturday, Macklin’s trainer Buddy McGirt, a former 140-pound and welterweight titleholder, says he would have beaten Manny Pacquiao in his prime.